498 LXXXYII. PR1MULACEJ). (J. D. Hooker.) [Androsace. 



stout; bracts linear-oblong; pedicels short, stout. Calyx broadly turbinate, lobes 

 erect in fruit. Capsule 1-2-seeded. Seeds large, oblong,' plano-convex. 



7. A. mlcrophylla, Hook. /. ; densely tufted, stolons or obscure, 

 leaves minute densely imbricate on the short crowded branches sessile obovate 

 concave incurved cartilaginous ciliate, scapes very short and small, umbels 

 glandular-pubescent, calyx cleft to the middle, lobes obtuse, corolla-lobes obo- 

 vate tips rounded mouth annulate. A. globifera, Klatt in Linncea, xxxii. 292 

 (not of Duby}. A. villosa, Herb. Ind. Or. H ',/. 8f T., not of Linn. 



KASHMIR; inner ranges ; Brazil and Tilail, alt. 12-13,000 ft., Thomson, Clarke. 

 WESTERN TIBKT, Falconer. 



Stems 1-6 in., sometimes rigid, with subremote rosettes. Leaves -\ in., obtuse 

 or mucronate or cuspidate. Scapes -1 in., 3-6-fld. Flowers and seeds as in 

 A. semper vivoides, but ring at mouth of corolla not produced. Seeds 2, oblong, 

 angular. 



tf Leaves large or small, pubescent vittous or silky. 



8. A. sarmentosa, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Watt. Sf Carey, ii. 14 ; 

 PI. As. Rar. iii. t. 206 ; Cat. 614, and 615 in part ; pubescent villous or silky, 

 stolons leafless except at the nodes, leaves sessile or petioled elliptic-lanceolate 

 or oblanceolate subacute, bracts various entire silky, umbels lax or dense, calyx 

 cleft half-way, lobes obtuse, corolla-throat obscurely annulate. Duby in DC. 

 Prodr. viii. 49 ; Sot. Mag. t. 6210. 



TEMPERATE and Strs- ALPINE HIMALAYA, from Sikkim to Kashmir. 



A very variable plant, in size, habit, clothing, length, and shape of invol. leaves, 

 and number, length, and stoutness of pedicels. Calyx hemispheric. Corolla twice as 

 broad, pale rose-purple with a yellowish eye, lobes broadly obovate, tips rounded ; 

 throat with a raised ring. Capsule broadly oblong, valves entire. Seeds few or 

 many, oblong or subglobose, granulate. The following varieties have no precise 

 limits. 



VAB. 1 . Watkinsi ; laxly hairy or silky, scapes and stolons stout, leaves -1 in., 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate subsessile or sessile, pedicels ^-l in. much longer than 

 the invol. bracts. Nipal. 



VAK. 2. grandifolia ; pubescent or laxly hairy, stolons 0, scape stout, leaves very 

 large sometimes 1 in. diam. elliptic or lanceolate narrowed into the long or short 

 petiole, bracts very small. A. foliosa, Klatt in Linnaa xxxii. 293, not of Duby. 

 Sikkim, at Tungu, alt. 13-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 



VAR. 3. primuloides ; silkily villous, leaves as in var. 1 but often narrowed into a 

 petiole, and stolons (often absent) and scapes more slender. A. primuloides, Duby 

 1. c. 30 ; Mem. Prim. t. 3, f. 3. Kumaon, alt. 12,000 ft., Edgeworth. Kashmir, 

 Zanskar, and Lahul, al . 8-10,000 ft. 



VAR.^, foliosa ; leaves long petioled elliptic 1 in. diam., stolons ?, scape slender, 

 bracts small linear. A. foliosa, Duby in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 142, t. 146; DC. I.e. 

 49 ; Banehal, Jacquemont. 



9. A. lanuginpsa, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. 8f Carey, ii. 15; 

 Cat. n. 615 and 614 in part ; pubescent or silkily villous, stolon-like branches 

 long leafy throughout and with scattered rosettes, leaves lanceolate acute or 

 acuminate, scape solitary, invol. bracts various entire silky, umbels lax or dense, 

 calyx cleft half-way, lobes obtuse, corolla-throat obscurely annulate. Hot. Mag. 

 t. 4005. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; alt. 7-10,000 ft., from Kumaon to Kashmir. 



Very similar in calyx and corolla to A. sarmentosa, and as variable in stature and 

 clothing, but in habit entirely different, the ascending branches 1-10 in. long only 

 resemble stolons, and never root, the leaves are smaller, always sessile and much more 

 densely silky in the ordinary state of the plant, the flowers are smaller. Capsule 4-6- 



